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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just FYI for those saying "why not just buy in Glover Park" - you haven't bought recently. There are no 3 bedroom condos in Glover Park (or really, EOTP period that doesn't need extensive renovation costing 100k +) that are under 750K, except for a handful that have HOA fees of over $800/month. There are plenty of renovated condos, and a number of rowhomes that don't need more than 30-40K of renovation, in Petworth for under 750K.[/quote]

You can't buy a split/converted to condo bay-front rowhouse in Bloomingdale for less than $575K, and that's for the lower half.  The top two floors will easily be $800K.

Nobody buys boutique housing at these prices and expects to also raise children in that space.

WotP might as well be the suburbs.  It's boring.  It's over.  It's too far from downtown.  It's Rockthesda.  Why pay to live in DC if you can't actually get there without a car?

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Why are we talking about Bloomingdale?  Did you mean Petworth?

I live EOTP but I think it's pretty obvious why people would pay slightly more to live WOTP.  In Petworth there have been a rash of shootings (including on the street in front of the nice new Safeway) and although there are lot of families, it is not a place where kids play in the streets, as you do actually see WOTP, where you don't see drug dealers on the streets (as you do in Petworth).

The idea of all the new families getting their kids into charters (as if the charters are all great - most are mediocre) is not going to happen, as the numbers have become very difficult.  So people are going to try as hard as they can to make the local schools work, but whether they'll work more than a few years is anyone's guess.  [/quote]

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